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Two HN Announcements
The HN community feels like it owns HN, and we like it that way. HN has become an important institution in the tech community, and though it was initially developed for YC founders it’s clearly evolved into much more than that. We’ve always felt that the best way for HN to benefit YC is simply for it to maximally…
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Spymarks, not Watermarks
Watermarks that spy on users are no mere watermarks
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How to build quickly
Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the ‘loading-bar’ style (more on that below) Don’t just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so you can […]
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Why is it so hard to give Google money?
I’ve been trying to run search ads on Google for over a month. Due to two unrelated snags, I’ve only had ~12 hours of uptime with those ads in that time. Based on conversations with other startups that run Google Ads, my experience is neither unique nor surprising. Apropos of Google’s earnings day, I wanted to vent a…
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Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
searchmysite.net was designed to be a search engine free from SEO spam, but now almost all traffic comes from SEO spammers.
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Cloudflare TV
I'm excited to announce the upcoming launch of Cloudflare TV. A 24x7 live television broadcast, streamed globally via the Cloudflare network. You can tune in to the pre-broadcast station and check out the upcoming schedule at: cloudflare.tv
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Facebook sues Namecheap
We don’t want people to be deceived, so we take legal action against misleading domains.
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Andreessen-Horowitz craps on “AI” startups from a great height
Andreessen-Horowitz has always been the most levelheaded of the major current year VC firms. While other firms were levering up on “cleantech” and nonsensical biotech startups that viol…
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GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
GLM 5.2 is the first open weights model I'd call a genuine competitor to Opus and GPT for agentic work - at ~15-20% of the price. Part one of why AI inference margins are about to collapse.
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Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.
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Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
As an entrepreneur, I have never felt such pain as I do while typing this. We have faced numerous challenges before but non compares to the arbitrary closing of our Payment account by Stripe for literally no reason.
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How to get your first 100k active users
What we learned growing Winnie’s network of parents from a small private beta to a booming national community.
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Advertising Is a Cancer on Society
A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.
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xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.
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What Sun got wrong
We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies.
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The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
Who were the most popular personal bloggers of 2025, and what made them successful on Hacker News?
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The next Google
DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.
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GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
What would you do if your organization had used a domain name for 27 years, and the registrar holding the domain seized it without any advance warning? All
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AI promised less work. I've never worked more
Agents made implementation cheap, so I started doing far more of it in parallel. My GitHub history since 2019 shows what that did: as VP of Technology I am back at my full-stack engineer pace, with bursts, burnout and a low season that is no longer low.
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Google DeepMind
DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research will join forces to accelerate progress towards a world in which AI helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity.
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VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
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Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 801 external partners for targeted advertising.